17thC
Sir William DUGDALE : The History of Imbanking and Draning of Divers Fens & Marshes
(1662 London)
(1772 Bowyer & Nichols, London. 2nd Ed. Corrected)
Offered in 1999 for £750

18thC
A Cursory View of a Proposed Canal from Kendal to the Duke of Bridgewater's Canal, leading to
Manchester by the Several Towns of Milnthorp, Lancaster, etc (c1760 Manchester ?)
ANON : The History of Inland Navigation (1766)
J A PHILLIPS : A General History of Inland Navigation, Foreign & Domestic, containing a complete
account of the Canals already Executed in England, with considerations on those Projected
(1792-3 London) (1803 London. 4th Ed)
John CARY : Inland Navigation, or Select Plans of the Several Navigable Canals
Throughout Great Britain (1795 London)
R FULTON : A Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation (1796)

1800-1850
Henry SKRINE : A General Account of All the Rivers of Note in Great Britain (1801 London)
Z ALLNUTT : Useful and Correct Accounts of the Navigation of the Rivers and Canals
West of London (1810 Henley)
John HASSELL : Tour of the Grand Junction Canal, Illustrated with a Series of Engravings
(1819 Hassell, London)
Offered in 1999 for £900
Joseph PRIESTLEY : Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals and Railways
throughout Great Britain (1831 London)
W FAIRBAIRN : Remarks on Canal Navigation .... (1831)
James THORNE : Rambles by Rivers The Avon (1845 London)
Rambles by Rivers : The Thames (1847 London)

1851-1900
R BLAKEY : The Angler's Complete Guide to the Rivers and Lakes of England (1853 London)
(1859 London. 2nd Ed)
Samuel LEWIS : The Book of English Rivers - An Account of the Rivers of England & Wales
(1855 London)
Samuel SMILES : Lives of the Engineers (1861)
'BUMPS' : A Trip Through the Caledonian Canal and Tour in the Highlands (1861 PP)
J B DASHWOOD : The Thames to the Solent by Canal and Sea (1868)
ANON : The Waterway to London, as explored in the "Wanderer" and "Ranger"
with Sail, Paddle & Oar (1869 London)
G SMITH : Our Canal Population (1875)
G SMITH : Canal Adventures by Moonlight (1881)
Amos READE : Life in the Cut (1889) - fiction
E HODDER : George Smith (of Coalville) (1896)
L F VERNON-HARCOURT : Rivers and Canals (1896)
H R DE SALIS : A Chronology of Inland Navigation in Great Britain (1897)

1901-1939
W BOYLE & T WAGHORN : The Law Relating to Traffic on Railways and Canals (1901) - 3 vols
H G THOMPSON : The Canal System of England (1902)
H R DE SALIS : Bradshaw's Canals and Navigable Rivers of England & Wales (1904)
U A FORBES & W H R ASHFORD : Our Waterways - A History .. (1906)
E A PRATT : British Canals - Is their Resuscitation Practicable ? (1906)
Bosdin LEECH : History of the Manchester Ship Canal (1907) - 2 vols
Royal Commission on the Canals & Inland Navigations of the United Kingdom : Report
(1907-9) - 12 vols
G WESTALL : Inland Cruising on the Rivers and Canals of England & Wales (1908)
J E PALMER : British Canals - Problems and Possibilities (1910)
E A PRATT : Canals and Traders (1910)
H W DICKINSON : Robert Fulton, Engineer and Artist (1913)
W T JACKMAN : The Development of Transportation in Modern England (1914)
F S THACKER : The Thames Highway - General History (1914)
J S NETTLEFORD : Garden Cities and Canals (1914)
P BONTHRON : My Holidays on Inland Waterways (1916)
F S THACKER : The Thames Highway - Locks and Weirs (1920)
E A PRATT : Scottish Canals and Waterways (1922)
G CADBURY & S P DOBBS : Canals and Inland Waterways (1929)
W BLISS : The Heart of England by Waterway (1933)
Alexander GIBB : The Story of Telford (1935)
T S WILLAN : Navigation in England 1600-1750 (1936)

1940-1959
Bernard FALK : The Bridgewater Millions (1942)
L T C ROLT : Narrow Boat (1944)
Eric DE MARE : The Canals of England (1950 The Architectural Press)
L T C ROLT : The Inland Waterways of England (1950)
John O'CONNOR : Canals, Barges and People (1950 Art & Technics) - engraved by the author
T S WILLAN : The Navigation of the River Weaver in the 18thC (1951)
Charles HADFIELD : The Canals of Southern England (1955)
BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION : Canals and Inland Waterways - an Interim Report (1955)
Charles HADFIELD : Introducing Canals (1955)
Bernard ASH : Fitchett's Inn (1955) - fiction
Roger PILKINGTON : Thames Waters (1956)
John SEYMOUR : Sailing Through England (1956)
C I SAVAGE : Inland Transport (History of the Second World War) (1957)
L T C ROLT : Thomas Telford - A Biography (1958)
Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Inland Waterways (1958)

After 1960
Charles HADFIELD : The Canals of South Wales and the Border (1960)
Roy CLARK : The Ports of the Exe Estuary (1960)
Hugh MALET : The Canal Duke (1961)
Charles HADFIELD : Waterways to Stratford (1962) - with John Norris
L A EDWARDS : Inland Waterways of Great Britain and Ireland (1962)
C T G BOUCHER : John Rennie 1761-1821 (1963)
BRITISH WATERWAYS BOARD : The Future of the Waterways - an Interim Report (1964)
BRITISH WATERWAYS BOARD : The Facts about the Waterways (1965)
P A L VINE : london's Lost Route to the Sea (1965)
T S WILLAN : The Early History of the Don Navigation (1965)
Charles HADFIELD : The Canals of the East Midlands (1966)
Charles HADFIELD : The Canals of the West Midlands (1966)
John SEYMOUR : Voyage into England (1966)
Charles HADFIELD : British Canals - An Illustrated History (1966 David & Charles 42/-)